Abstract
Modern journalism emerged in the XIX century based on truth and reality. The rise of Romanticism in that century proposed an approach against the Enlightenment and its pillars: objectivity, positivism and realism. Unlike it, Romanticism claimed subjectivity and the self as the more authentic reality. Thus, it took beauty out of the base of aesthetics and put in its place communication and expression. With the arrival of Postmodernism, the notions of reality and truth have been in crisis too and so it proposes a moral and epistemological relativism. This view has been a permanent attack on journalism. This paper vindicates reality and truth, and so journalism as one of the main institutions based on those concepts, besides science. Therefore, journalism can be seen as the most necessary and genuine aesthetic in the current digital era because it takes and melts objectivity and realism from Illustration, communication and subjectivity from Romanticism, and impact from Postmodernism. In current network societies, journalism has rehabilitated a new narrative and is increasingly more based on stories than on news. That is creating a genuine literature of reality, which gathers both the ethic and the aesthetic project of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Postmodernism.
Highlights
Modern journalism emerged in the XIX century based on truth and reality
That is creating a genuine literature of reality, which gathers both the ethic and the aesthetic project of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Postmodernism
This one is related to one concept of aesthetic postmodernism, the already mentioned notion of ‘impact’, in the sense described by Vattimo when he speaks about ‘shock’ and ‘stoss’
Summary
The notion is more open and it can be linked to formal notions, as described by Berlin, and and according to Vattimo, to the belonging to any given community (of readers, for instance, in the case of journalism and literature) and, to physical notions, a view of aesthetics which is typically postmodernist This process can be briefly described as follows: firstly, art lost his aura, Benjamin points out in his classic The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, published in 1935. According to Vattimo (1990: 130-144), it is in this interpretation that ‘stoss’ and ‘shock’ appeared and they overcame the traditional metaphysical definition of art as a place of conciliation and of catharsis, of the exterior-interior correspondence, proper notions of Illustration (Kant) and Romanticism (Hegel) Both concepts are, a link between journalism and literature and a link to one of the main pillars of the so-called aesthetic of journalism, which is based on truth and its impact (‘shock’, ‘stoss’). Is not this way that the scoop works, the way breaking news works, the way journalism itself works in its main function to reveal the truth and the hidden reality and to disclose it and denounce it?
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